The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Stanford walks it off against Texas, advances to 18th CWS
Drew Bowser hit a routine fly that Texas outfielders couldn’t find in the twilight sky, allowing Alberto Rios to score the gamewinning run from second, and Stanford edged the Longhorns 7-6 on Monday night to advance to its third straight College World Series and 18th overall.
Rios was nearly thrown out at second for the third out of the ninth after his long fly to left hit off the wall. Texas almost got out of the inning again when Bowser hit a high fly, but it dropped about 15 feet from outfielder Dylan Campbell.
Stanford (44-18) will play top-seeded Wake Forest on Saturday in the College World Series.
Bowser made it 2-0 in the second with his third home run in three games.
Stanford scored three runs with two outs in the fourth for a 6-3 lead. Carter Graham followed an intentional walk with an RBI single to break a tie and Braden Montgomery added a two-run single for a threerun lead.
Texas (42-22) was also seeking its third consecutive appearance in the College World Series.
Campbell tied it at 6-all in the eighth with a single and then turned a double play on a long throw from right field to retire Saborn Campbell at third.
Tennessee earned the final berth with a 5-0 victory over Southern Mississippi in a game that started four hours late Monday because of rain and lightning.
CWS bracket play begins Friday with TCU (4222) matched against Oral Roberts (51-12) and No. 2 Florida (50-15) against No. 7 Virginia (50-13). Saturday’s openers match Wake Forest (52-10) against No. 8 Stanford (44-18) and No. 5 LSU (48-15) against Tennessee (43-20).
Turner heads Jv-like U.S. Gold Cup roster
Just four players who appeared for the U.S. at last year’s World Cup are on a largely junior varsity roster announced Monday for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, including just one regular starter in goalkeeper Matt Turner.
The 23-man roster selected by new interim coach B.J. Callaghan for the championship of the Confederation of North and Central America and the Caribbean has three others who saw limited World Cup time: forwards Jesús Ferreira and Jordan Morris, and right back Deandre
Yedlin. Three additional players were on the World Cup roster without getting into a match: goalkeeper Sean Johnson, defender Aaron Long and midfielder Cristian Roldan.
The Gold Cup roster totaled just 442 minutes in Qatar: 360 by Turner, 45 by Ferreira, 33 by Yedlin and 4 by Morris.
Five of the players are with the U.S. for this week’s CONCACAF Nations League matches: Turner and Johnson plus defender Miles Robinson, midfielder Alan Soñora and forward Alex Zendejas.
Turner was limited to five Europa League and two FA Cup matches in his first season with Arsenal, playing just once since Jan. 27.
Sixteen of the Gold Cup players are from Major League Soccer.
The U.S. opens against Jamaica at Chicago on June 24, plays Curaçao, St. Kitts and Nevis, Guyana or Sint Maarten four days later at St. Louis and closes the first round against Nicaragua at Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 2. The final is July 16 in Inglewood.
Mexico has eight Gold Cup titles, the U.S. seven and Canada one.
The roster: Goalkeepers: Sean Johnson (Toronto), Gaga Slonina (Chelsea, England), Matt Turner (Arsenal, England)
Defenders: Dejuan Jones (New England), Aaron Long (LAFC), Matt Miazga (Cincinnati), Jalen Neal (LA Galaxy), Bryan Reynolds (Roma, Italy), Miles Robinson (Atlanta), John Tolkin (New York Red Bulls), Deandre Yedlin (Miami)
Midfielder: Gianluca Busio (Venezia, Italy), Djordje Mihailovic (AZ Alkmaar, Netherlands), Aidan Morris (Columbus), Cristian Roldan (Seattle), James Sands (New York City), Alan Soñora (Juárez, Mexico)
Forwards: Cade Cowell (San Jose), Jesús Ferreira (Dallas), Julian Gressel (Vancouver), Jordan Morris (Seattle), Brandon Vazquez (Cincinnati), Alex Zendejas (América, Mexico).
• Champagne and rain poured as Manchester City’s players celebrated winning the treble of major trophies with an open-top bus parade through the city center in front of tens of thousands of fans on Monday.
The start of the evening parade was delayed because of what City called “adverse weather conditions and lightning storms” but two blue buses — complete with the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League trophies aboard — eventually wound their way through the city streets, with the players and cigar-smoking manager Pep Guardiola wearing T-shirts bearing the words “Treble Winners.”
“It had to be the best parade with this rain, otherwise this is not Manchester,” Guardiola said after the squad reached a stage on St. Peter’s Square in the middle of Manchester, led by a shirtless Erling Haaland and Ruben Dias with three medals around his neck.
City beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the Champions League final in Istanbul on Saturday to complete the treble and emulate the achievement of Manchester United’s class of 1998-99.
It was a first Champions League title for City, along with a fifth Premier League title in six years and a second FA Cup in Guardiola’s seven-year reign.
UCLA, USC teams visit the White House
The UCLA women’s soccer and men’s volleyball teams and the USC women’s beach volleyball team were among the 47 NCAA championship teams from 19 different sports honored at the White House on Monday on College Athlete Day.
UCLA won its second NCAA women’s soccer championship on Dec. 5, overcoming a two-goal deficit with 10 minutes to play to defeat North Carolina, 3-2, in overtime in Cary, N.C. UCLA scored the tying goal with 16 seconds left in regulation and the winning goal 17 minutes into overtime to complete the biggest comeback in College Cup history.
The Bruins won their record 20th NCAA men’s volleyball championship on May 6, defeating two-time reigning champion Hawaii in four sets in Fairfax, Virginia.
The USC beach volleyball team defeated UCLA in the title match last month in Gulf Shores, Alabama, to give the Trojans their third consecutive national championship and their fifth in seven years.
The morning ceremony was hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris, who filled in for President Joe Biden. Biden was scheduled to lead the event, but he had to be replaced so he could undergo a root canal at the White House after experiencing pain in one of his teeth.
“You inspire so many across our country, people you may never meet,” Harris said. “You remind all of us of what we can achieve.”
Assault charge on Winfrey dropped
Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey had a misdemeanor assault charge against him dropped in Texas after he completed a pretrial diversion program.
According to Harris County Court documents, Winfrey’s case was dismissed on June 9.
The 22-year-old Winfrey was arrested in April after he allegedly caused “bodily injury” during an argument with a woman he was dating.
Winfrey has had a turbulent tenure with Cleveland since the Browns drafted him in the fourth round in 2022 out of Oklahoma. He was disciplined by the team as a rookie last season on at least two occasions, and Winfrey acknowledged he needed to mature as a professional.
Last week, Winfrey and cornerback Greg Newsome II were robbed at gunpoint by six masked men in downtown Cleveland outside a nightclub. Neither player was hurt in the incident, which remains under investigation.
Winfrey remained inside the team’s facility last week for two days while the Browns practiced outdoors during minicamp. Coach Kevin Stefanski declined to say if Winfrey was being disciplined. He rejoined his teammates on the third day.
The 6-foot-4, 290-pound Winfrey is expected to be with the team at training camp next month.